Rather than dismiss these as infelicities or ineptitude, he finds enough instances to sort them into categories of "reverse accentuation," validating the notion that these counterintuitive text settings are indeed purposeful.

One preliminary attempt to address the question of student tolerance and the accentuation effects of an honors education was a study by Shepherd & Shepherd ("Liberal Tolerance") that reported the results of a student attitude survey concerning the civil rights of selected marginalized groups.

Among the topics are syllable duration and sign structure in spontaneous Finnish sign language, two different intonation contours of Estonian jaajaa, the perception of phrase boundaries and prominent syllables in German, an acoustic study of accentuation in Estonian Swedish compounds, and postponed pitch reset as a device for indicating dependency between utterances.

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